![]() Carbonite will not disclose your personal information.to third parties unless disclosure is necessary to comply with law. Either possibility is nasty, particularly for a company that we're supposed to trust with our data - in case you're not familiar with Carbonite, it's an online backup service! If the company sold my details, this is in direct contravention of its privacy policy:Ĭarbonite will not sell your personal information to third parties. It would appear that Carbonite has either sold my personal details, or has had a security breach. Note that this wasn't spam from Carbonite, but from several unrelated organizations. And so it came to pass that I started getting spam to an alias I gave to Carbonite. Similarly, if I start receiving spam to that email alias, I can tell which organization leaked or sold my details, because the alias is uniquely tied to that organization. That unique address is aliased to my real email account, but can be switched off if the sender turns out to be a spammer. ![]() Instead, when I need to register for something, I make up a unique email address. Like many anti-spam wonks, I don't give out my email address to just anyone. Should you be worried? Let's take The Long View. The company's admitted giving my email address to a third party, despite promising that it wouldn't. has been giving out customers' personal information. ![]() Oh ****, where's all this spam coming from? It looks like Carbonite, Inc.
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